SAFIA. 199 



whitish jwints beyond it on costa ; postmedial area suffused with 

 black-brown except beyond lower angle of cell; subterminal line 

 black, rather diffused on inner side, angled outwards below veins 7 

 and 4, then incurved, a black spot in the angle below vein 4 ; a 

 series of minute U-shaped black marks defined on inner side b}^ 

 white before termen, connected by short black streaks with the 

 waved black terminal line ; a whitish patch on termen and cilia at 

 discal fold. Hind wing black-brown with the costal area and inner 

 margin rather paler to the subterminal line, the terminal area white, 

 tinged except at middle, with red-brown and irrorated with dark 

 brown ; traces of a dark postmedial line ; subterminal line slightly 

 angled outwards at discal and submedian folds ; a series of small 

 V-shaped black marks before termen connected by short streaks 

 with the fine waved black terminal line ; the underside grey-white 

 irrorated with brown, a small discoidal lunule defined by brown 

 placed on a sinuous medial line, a postmedial line excurved below 

 costa, and broad subterminal shade. 



Hub. Peru, Chanchamayo, 1 $ type. Exj). 52 millim. 



7993. Safia bidens. 



Xylis bidens, Kaye, Trans. Eat. Soc. 1901, p. 124, pi. v. f, 1. 



5 . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with dark brown and 

 some grey ; palpi blackish, the 3rd joint whitish at base and 

 extremity ; pectus and legs grey-brown, the tarsi black ringed with 

 white ; abdomen grey mixed with blackish. Fore wing ochreous 

 white irrorated and suffused with red-brown ; subbasal line blackish, 

 sinuous, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line black, 

 minutely waved to submedian fold, then inctirved ; median area 

 below the cell suffused with purple from just beyond the ante- 

 medial line ; two indistinct sinuous dark medial lines ; a small 

 dark spot in middle of cell ; reniform faintly defined by blackish, 

 with whitish bar on outer edge and white points at lower 

 extremities ; a dark patch on costa defined on inner side and below 

 by whitish before the postmedial line, which is blackish, minutely 

 dentate to vein 3, then retracted to origin of vein 2, then excurved 

 and very minutely dentate ; postmedial area black-brown with 

 purple suffusion beyond the postmedial line, some white irroration 

 towards costa and some white points on costa ; subterminal line 

 ochreous whitish, sinuous, angled outwards below veins 7 and 4 

 and slightly below vein 3, angled inwards at veins 5 and 2 ; a 

 series of minute black lunules with ochreous white spots on their 

 inner sides before termen ; a waved dark terminal line and fine 

 pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing ochreous white irrorated 

 with red-brown and suffused with dark brown to the siibterminal 

 line ; traces of a double sinuotis dark medial line and of a single 

 postmedial line ; subterminal line dark defined on outer side by 

 ■ochreous white, slightly waved ; a series of black striae defined on 

 inner side by whitish before termen with which they are connected 



